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A renegade Thai general who supports the "Red Shirt" opposition protest movement has been shot and seriously wounded, according to a nurse at the hospital where he was admitted, reports from Bangkok said on Thursday.

‘Filial Piety’ is an expression which everyone should know, yet it is not a common American phrase. Many Americans are very likely to have never even heard of this phrase, though it conveys a universal theme.

The International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) will hold a ‘charity match’ between Indian celebrities and Sri Lankan cricketers in Colombo in June and the proceeds would go to rehabilitate former child soldiers, of Tamil Tigers, who once fought in the ranks of the now decimated Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

The promise of a new era of peace and stability in Sri Lanka, and optimism that the time has come to address all outstanding issues in a spirit of understanding and mutual accommodation has been highlighted at an International Conference on Sri Lanka organized by the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi.

The Canadian Tamils for Peace and Democracy (CaTpad) and the Forum of Srilankan Canadians for Reconciliation, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction have expressed their collective alarm in a memorandum at the failure of Sri Lankan government to protect the most essential public trust—the judicial system.

Tamil Nadu Government appointed a committee on a complaint made by Nalini, convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. "A top-level committee will submits its report with next two days", State Law Minister Duraimurugan told in the State Assembly on Thursday.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi has recalled his olden days and said that his 40 years good old friend and AIADMK founder MGR only made him as Chief Minister after DMK founder Anna's demise in 1969, even his (Karunanidhi) family members objected it.

Britain’s new government, Conservative David Cameron as prime minister and Liberal Democratic Nick Clegg as deputy prime minister, could spell changing relationship with Washington. Both have signaled they favor looser ‘un-slavish’ ties to the United States than those held by Labor’s Gordon Brown and his predecessor Tony Blair.

Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam(AIADMK) supremo Ms J Jayalalithaa has described that Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi's charge that she was responsible for delaying the disproportionate wealth case, now pending before a special count in Bengaluru, as "mischievous and condemnable" and she accused him for the delay.

Justice K P Sivasubramaniam Commission, which was appointed by the DMK Government to inquire into the allegations of fraudulent grabbing of land in Sirudhavur Village, Chengalpatu Taluk, Kancheepuram District by former Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa and her associates said in its report that there is no material to suggest Ms Jayalalithaa was involved in the issue.

Sarath Kongahage is the newly appointed Chairman of the Rupavahini TV Corporation. A mass media expert, he brings in his rich experience from his past service in the print and electronic media as also in the Media and Information Ministry.

David Miliband, the former British Foreign Secretary, is on a fact-finding mission to know why Labour failed, according to British media. He admitted the defeat was significant, given that they lost over ninety seats.